''The Last Waltz'' is the second live album by

the Band The Band was a Canadian-American rock music, rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario, in 1957. It consisted of the Canadians Rick Danko (bass, guitar, vocals, fiddle), Garth Hudson (organ, keyboards, accordion, saxophone), Richard Manuel (piano, d ...

, released on

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in 1978, catalogue 3WS 3146. It is the

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to the 1978 film of the same name, and the final album by the original configuration of the Band. It peaked at No. 16 on the ''Billboard'' 200.

The

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documents the Band's "farewell" concert which took place at Bill Graham's Winterland Ballroom on

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1976. The event included an actual

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for 5,000 attendees, with

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and a stage set for '' La traviata'' borrowed from the

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. The concert featured songs by the Band interspersed with the group backing up a variety of musical guests. These included many with whom they had worked in the past, notably their previous employers

Ronnie Hawkins Ronald Cornett Hawkins (January 10, 1935 – May 29, 2022) was an American rock and roll singer, long based in Canada, whose career spanned more than half a century. His career began in Arkansas, United States, where he was born and raised. He ...

and

Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year ...

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, a

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neighbor, had co-written and sung on the track "4% Pantomime" for the '' Cahoots'' album. Individual members of the Band had played with the invitees on the following albums: in 1972 with Bobby Charles for his self-titled album; in 1973 with

Ringo Starr Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles. Starr occasionally sang lead vocals with the group, us ...

on '' Ringo''; in 1974 with

Joni Mitchell Roberta Joan Mitchell (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitch ...

on ''

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'' and with

Neil Young Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. Since the begi ...

on '' On the Beach'' and the sessions for '' Homegrown'', later assembled into an album and released in 2020; in 1975 with

Muddy Waters McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of moder ...

and

Paul Butterfield Paul Vaughn Butterfield (December 17, 1942May 4, 1987) was an American blues harmonica player, singer, and bandleader. After early training as a Western concert flute, classical flautist, he developed an interest in blues harmonica. He explored ...

on ''The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album''; in 1976 with

Eric Clapton Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English Rock music, rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music. Clapton ranked second in ''Rolling Stone''s l ...

on ''

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'' and with

Neil Diamond Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling musicians of all time. He has written and ...

on '' Beautiful Noise''. Sides one through five of the album consisted of songs taken from the concert. Side six comprised "The Last Waltz Suite", new numbers composed by Robertson and performed by the Band on an MGM soundstage. The suite featured

Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, bandleader, and activist. She is considered one of the leading music artists behind the country rock genre in the 1970s and the Americana (music), Americana genre ...

and, on a remake of "

The Weight "The Weight" is a song by the Canadian-American group the Band that was released as a single in 1968 and on the group's debut album '' Music from Big Pink''. It was their first release under this name, after their previous releases as Canadian ...

", Roebuck and

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. The music received overdubs at Village Recorders and

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studios in post-production, owing to faults recorded during the concert. On April 16, 2002, a

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reissue of the album arrived in stores, including everything released on the original with additional tracks taken from the concert and rehearsals.

Track listing

The performance of " Helpless" by Neil Young features backing vocals by Joni Mitchell; Paul Butterfield plays harmonica for Muddy Waters on " Mannish Boy"; Dr. John plays congas on "

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" and plays guitar on "Down South in New Orleans"; the entire ensemble sings back-up on the closer, " I Shall Be Released".

Personnel

The Band *

Rick Danko Richard Clare Danko (December 29, 1943 – December 10, 1999) was a Canadian musician, bassist, songwriter, and singer, best known as a founding member of The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. During ...

– bass guitar,

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, vocals *

Levon Helm Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012) was an American musician who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Hel ...

– drums,

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

, vocals *

Garth Hudson Eric Garth Hudson (August 2, 1937 – January 21, 2025) was a Canadian multi-instrumentalist best known as the keyboardist and occasional saxophonist for The Band. He was a principal architect of the group's sound and was described as "the mo ...

– organ, piano, accordion, synthesizer,

clavinet The Clavinet is an electric clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds with rubber pads, each matching one of the keys and respond ...

, saxophones *

Richard Manuel Richard George Manuel (April 3, 1943 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in the Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of F ...

– piano, drums, organ, clavinet,

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, vocals *

Robbie Robertson Jaime Royal Robertson (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician of Indigenous and Jewish ancestry. He was the lead guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s. Robertson was also the ...

– guitars, piano, vocals

The horn section

* Rich Cooper – trumpet,

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* James Gordon – flute,

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

, clarinet *

Jerry Hey Jerry Hey (born 1950) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Michael Jackson's '' Thriller'', '' Rock with Y ...

– trumpet, flugelhorn * Howard Johnson – tuba,

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, flugelhorn,

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* Charlie Keagle – clarinet; flute;

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, tenor and

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s * Tom Malone – trombone,

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* Larry Packer –

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* Horns arranged by

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, Howard Johnson, Tom Malone, John Simon and

Allen Toussaint Allen Richard Toussaint (; January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer. He was an influential figure in New Orleans rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the end of the century, descr ...

Guest personnel

– harmonica, vocal * Bobby Charles – vocal *

– guitar, vocal *

Dr. John Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr. John, was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. His music combined New Orleans blues, jazz, R&B, soul and funk. Active as a session mus ...

– piano, guitar,

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, vocal *

– guitar, vocal *

– vocal *

Bob Margolin Bob Margolin (born May 9, 1949) is an American electric blues guitarist. His nickname is Steady Rollin'. Biography Margolin started playing guitar in 1964, and his first appearance on record was with Boston psychedelic band The Freeborne, and ...

– guitar on " Mannish Boy" *

– guitar, vocal *

– vocal *

Pinetop Perkins Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins (July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011) was an American blues pianist. He played with some of the most influential blues and rock-and-roll performers of his time and received numerous honors, including a Grammy Lifet ...

– piano on "Mannish Boy" * Dennis St. John – drums on "

Dry Your Eyes "Dry Your Eyes" is a single by English rapper and producer Mike Skinner under the music project the Streets. The song describes the protagonist trying to cope with his girlfriend breaking up with him. It was released in the UK on 19 July 2004. ...

" * John Simon – piano on "

Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)" is a classic American song that was written in 1913 by composer James Royce Shannon (1881–1946) for the Tin Pan Alley musical '' Shameen Dhu''. The original recording of the song, by Chauncey ...

" * Cleotha Staples –

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on "

" *

– vocal * Roebuck "Pops" Staples – guitar, vocal * Yvonne Staples – harmony vocal on "The Weight" *

– drums on " I Shall Be Released" *

– vocals *

Ronnie Wood Ronald David Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock musician, best known as a member of the Rolling Stones since 1975, and a member of Faces and the Jeff Beck Group. Wood began his career in 1964, playing lead guitar with several Brit ...

– guitar on "I Shall Be Released" *

– guitar, harmonica, vocal

Production personnel

* Robbie Robertson – producer * John Simon – producer, string arrangements *

Rob Fraboni Robert Alan Fraboni (born 23 April 1951) is an American, California-born record producer and audio engineer, well known for his work with Bob Dylan, The Band, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Tim Hardin, The Beach Boys, Joe Cocker, and Bonnie Rai ...

– producer * Ed Anderson – recording and mixing engineer * Terry Becker, Neil Brody, Tim Kramer, Elliot Mazer and Wayne Neuendorf –

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* Baker Bigsby, Tony Bustos and Jeremy Zatkin – mixing engineers * Bill Graham – concert production

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

2002 box set

''The Last Waltz'' is a 2002 four-disc box set re-release of the 1978 album ''The Last Waltz'' documenting the concert ''

The Last Waltz ''The Last Waltz'' was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group the Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. ''The Last Waltz'' was advertised as the Band's "farewell concert a ...

'', the last concert by

with its classic line up. A full forty tracks are taken from the show in addition to rehearsal outtakes. Twenty-four tracks are previously unreleased. Among the tracks added are a version of

Louis Jordan Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "Honorific nicknames in popular music, the King ...

's "

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" featuring

and

trading off the vocal, a reworked version of "

Rag Mama Rag "Rag Mama Rag" is a song by The Band which was first released on their 1969 album ''The Band''. It was also released as a single, reaching number 16 on the UK Singles Chart, the highest position for any single by the group. The single was less su ...

and

joining the Band on "

Acadian Driftwood "Acadian Driftwood" is a song by the Band. It was the fourth track on their sixth studio album '' Northern Lights – Southern Cross'' (1975), written by member Robbie Robertson. Richard Manuel, Levon Helm and Rick Danko trade off lead vocals and ...

", "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show", excerpts from a pair of instrumental jams involving several of the concert's guest performers, and the concert closer "

Don't Do It ''Don't Do It'' is the debut solo album by American rapper Richie Rich. The album was released in 1990 on Big League Records. Track listing #"Don't Do It" – 4:06 #"Rodney the Geek" – 4:30 #"Free at Last" – 5:14 #"Media Hype" (featuring ...

". In addition, several edits made on the original 1978 set have been done away with; certain songs (such as " Forever Young" with

) are now presented in their unedited versions. Songs still missing from the concert are a version of "

Georgia on My Mind "Georgia on My Mind" is a 1930 song written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell, and first recorded that same year by Carmichael at the RCA Studios New York#24th St, RCA Victor Studios at 155 East 24th Street in New York City. The song has ...

", the full versions of the two jams presented, the full version of "

Chest Fever "Chest Fever" is a song recorded by the Band on its 1968 debut, ''Music from Big Pink''. It is, according to Peter Viney, a historian of the group, the album track that has appeared on the most subsequent live albums and compilations, second only ...

", and the concert takes of "

King Harvest (Has Surely Come) "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" is a song by the Band, which originally appeared as the final track on their second album, ''The Band''. The song is credited solely to guitarist Robbie Robertson, although drummer/singer Levon Helm claimed that " ...

" and "Evangeline". While the album still has

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, re-sequencing, and editing, it does give a more accurate representation of the event itself than the earlier album or film do, according to collectors who have made comparisons with

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s of the concert. On November 11, 2016, this set was reissued as part of a ''40th Anniversary'' edition that includes the 1978 Scorsese film on a separate

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disc. Enclosed in a 10" by 11.5" booklet, the set contains numerous photographs from the event as well as essays by

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and

Ben Fong-Torres Benjamin Fong-Torres ( 方振豪; Cantonese: Fong Chan Ho; born January 7, 1945) is an American rock journalist best known for his association with ''Rolling Stone'' magazine (until 1981) and the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' (from around 1982) ...

. A previously published article entitled "A Behind-the-Scenes Report" by

Emmett Grogan Emmett Grogan (born Eugene Leo Grogan, November 28, 1942 – April 6, 1978) was a founder of the Diggers, a radical community-action group of Improvisational actors in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. The Diggers took their name ...

is also included, as well as a reproduction of the article on the event by

Joel Selvin Joel Selvin (born February 14, 1950) is an American San Francisco-based music critic and author known for his weekly column in the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', which ran from 1972 to 2009. Selvin has written books covering various aspects of po ...

printed in the

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on November 27, 1976. It is not indicated whether or not new mastering was done to the audio discs over and above that from the 2002 reissue.

Box set track listing

All songs were written by

, except where noted.

Box set personnel

The Band *

–

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–

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, vocals *

–

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–

, organ, clavinet,

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, vocals *

–

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s, piano, vocals Horns *Rich Cooper –

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*James Gordon –

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– trumpet, flugelhorn * Howard Johnson –

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, flugelhorn,

*Charlie Keagle – clarinet, flute,

, tenor and

s * Tom Malone –

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*Larry Packer –

*Horns

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, Garth Hudson, Howard Johnson, Tom Malone, John Simon and

Guests *

–

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, vocals * Bobby Charles – vocals *

– guitar, vocals *

– piano, guitar,

, vocals *

– guitar, vocals *

– guitar, vocals studio portion *

– vocals *

– guitar *

– guitar, vocals *

– vocals *

– piano, vocals *

Carl Radle Carl Dean Radle (June 18, 1942 – May 30, 1980) was an American bassist who toured and recorded with many of the most influential recording artists of the late 1960s and 1970s. He was posthumously inducted to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame ...

– bass *Dennis St. John – drums * John Simon – piano * Cleotha Staples – harmony vocal studio portion *

– vocals studio portion * Roebuck "Pops" Staples – guitar, vocals studio portion * Yvonne Staples – harmony vocal studio portion *

– drums *

Stephen Stills Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crosby, Stills & Nash; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; and Manassas (band ...

– guitar *

– vocals *

– guitar *

– guitar, harmonica, vocals Technical personnel *

– producer * John Simon and

– co-producers *Ed Anderson –

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and mixing

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*Terry Becker, Neil Brody, Tim Kramer, Elliot Mazer and Wayne Neuendorf – recording engineers *Baker Bigsby, Tony Bustos and Jeremy Zatkin – mixing engineers * Bill Graham – concert production * John Simon –

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arrangements

Certifications

References

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Contents

Track listing

Personnel

The horn section

Guest personnel

Production personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

2002 box set

Box set track listing

Box set personnel

Certifications

References